There has just been added to the prehistoric peeps" at the Natural History Museum, London, the skull and tusks complete of a Siberia: mammoth. Dr. Smith Woodward says that this is the first specimen. of a Siberian mammoth skull that has ever come to England. It will soon be displayed near the famous mammoth dug up at Ilford in 1864 and the towering skeleton mastodon from America. The other day, writes a Press correspondent, in the basement of the Museum an expert was found polishing up the beautiful six feet long tusks—smooth and cream-coloured—till they looked as perfect as if the creature died yesterday instead of tens of thousands or perhaps millions of years ago.
The skull was dug out of the ice on one of the Siberian islands in the Arctic. Preserved in cold storage through unknown ages, it is wonderfully fresh, even to the fragments of flesh and skin sticking on the great jaws. From examining the teeth, which were in splendid condition and about the diameter
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